Display devices



April 19, 1955 M. A. HERSH ETAL DISPLAY DEVICES Filed Feb. 26, 1952 INVENTORS Azzrza ha/Imac BY Maria AtawafierS/z A 2mm 344 ATTORNEY United States Patent DISPLAY DEVICES Maria Anna Hersh and Anna Winkenbach, Elizabeth, N. J.

Application February 26, 1952, Serial No. 273,416

4 Claims. (Cl. 211-45) Our invention relates generally to display devices and specifically to display devices used for displaying ma terials which are primarily sheet-like in form, such as scarves, handkerchiefs, swatches of material and the like; in so displaying the sheet-like material, our device drapes the material in such a form as to simulate an umbrella or a parasol.

It is an object of our invention to provide a display device which disposes articles in a pleasing and attractive manner.

It is another object of our invention to provide a display device which holds the material for convenient examination and display.

It is yet another object of our invention to provide a display device which permits the articles displayed to be picked up for closer examination without risk of damaging or soiling the articles.

It is yet another object of our invention to provide a display device which enhances the appearance of the goods and is sold along with the goods and serves as part of the packaging for the goods.

Among the further objects of our invention is to provide a display device which is attractive in form, easy to construct, relatively inexpensive, durable and convenient.

These objects and advantages, as well as other objects and advantages, will appear in the following description and drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of our display device having a handkerchief disposed thereon and a handkerchief included therein;

Figure 2 is a side view in perspective of the display device;

Figure 3 is a view of the retainer ring;

Figure 4 is a top view of a cone segment;

Figure 5 is a bottom view of a cone segment;

Figure 6 is a side view of the central tube; and

Figure 7 is a side view of a cone segment.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, our display device has a central tube or shaft 11. This central tube may be varied widely as to size and may have an internal diameter sufiicient to admit of the insertion of a handkerchief, scarf or the like 12, as may be seen in Fig. 1, so that the ends of the handkerchief or scarf may protrude from the central tube 11 in a pleasing manner. A number of partially flattened truncated cones 13 are provided. These cones, as may be seen in Fig. 4, are petalshaped in cross-section and have two flat sides making an apex at the inner edge. They may be attached to the central tube 11 by cement 14 or in some other suitable manner. They may be formed unitarily with the central tube 11. They are attached to the central tube 11 along their entire apex or inner edge 15 at a point commencing a brief distance away from the bottom of the central tube 11 and they extend along the central tube toward the top thereof approximately two-thirds the length of the central shaft. The smaller end 16 of the truncated cone 13 is attached near the bottom of the central tube 11 and the larger end 17 of the cone 13 consequently is toward the top. While we have shown these flat cones 13 to be truncated with an opening 18 at the bottom, it is not necessary that they be truncated, for the ends may be closed and run to more or less of a point. Immediately adjacent to the place where the top 17 of the cone is attached to the central tube 11, holes 19 are provided in the central tube 11. These holes will admit pins 20 to aflirmatively secure a handkerchief 21, sheet or scarf in place, in the interstices between the cones. A ring 22 is also provided to be slipped over the lower end 23 of the central tube 11 when a handkerchief 21 is disposed on the display device. This ring will serve to retain in place the lower portion of the handkerchief 21 by engaging it frictionally with the lower end 23 of the central tube 11. The use of our display device is as follows:

A thin wooden rod may first be used to insert the handkerchief 12 into the central tube 11. Then the display device is placed with its lower end 23 at the center of a handkerchief or similar article which has been spread out on a flat surface. The handkerchiefs border is then raised upwardly with a series of radial folds and each fold is inserted into one of the interstitial spaces of each of the adjacent cones 13. The part of the handkerchief 21 extending above the top 17 of the cones 13 is secured to the central tube 11 by the use of pins 20 extending through the holes 19. The excess material is allowed to fall downward in the manner shown in Figure 1. The ring 22 is then inserted over the bottom 23 of the central tube 11 thereby securing the handkerchief 21 in place. Our display device may be formed of metal, clear or colored plastics or any other material suiting the fancy.

The foregoing description is merely intended to illustrate an embodiment of the invention. The component parts have been shown and described. They each may have substitutes which may perform a substantially similar function; such substitutes may be known as proper substitutes for the said components and may have actually been known or invented before the present invention; these substitutes are contemplated as being within the scope of the appended claims, although they are not specifically catalogued herein.

We claim:

1. A display device comprising a tube, a ring frictionally engaged with one end of the tube with a fabric intervening, a plurality of conical members radially attached to the tube with their small ends adjacent to the ring, said conical members having a petal shaped cross-section, a portion of the tube extending beyond the large and small ends of the conical members, and said tube having a plurality of transverse holes therein adjacent to the large ends of the conical members.

2. A display device comprising a shaft, and a plurality of cones having a petal shaped cross-section, said cones being radially attached along their longitudinal inner edges near one end of the shaft, said shaft having a plurality of holes adjacent to the wider end of the cones, and a ring frictionally engaged with the end of the shaft and adjacent to the small ends of the cones.

3. A display device comprising a tubular shaft, a plurality of cones having a substantially petal shaped crossscction and radially attached along their longitudinal inner edges near one end of the shaft, a ring frictionally engaged with the end of the shaft adjacent to the small ends of the cones, and said shaft having holes adjacent to the large ends of the petal shaped cones.

4. A display device comprising a tubular central shaft, a plurality of truncated conical members radially attached to the central shaft with their truncated ends near the bottom of the shaft, a ring frictionally engaged with the end of the shaft adjacent to the small ends of the cones, and said shaft having holes adjacent to the large end of the conical members.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 503,708 Ross Aug. 22, 1893 664,600 Weitman Dec. 25, 1900 933,142 Vogt Sept. 7, 1909 980,098 Hansen Dec. 27, 1910 1,700,579 Bassion Jan. 29, 1929 1,904,510 Mott Apr. 18, 1933 FOREIGN PATENTS 324,205 Great Britain Jan. 23, 1930 

